Citing war crimes committed against civilians by both sides in last month's war in the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International urged in a report today that the international community impose an arms embargo on both the Israeli government and the Hamas government, as well as...
During an official visit to the Gaza Strip yesterday, Senator John Kerry went out of his way to avoid anyone associated with the Hamas government. Yet through a rather convoluted series of events, the former presidential candidate left the Gaza Strip with a letter...
The Israeli cabinet may be presented with the terms of a Gaza ceasefire as soon as Wednesday, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says that the ceasefire will not mean the opening of border crossings into the strip, which Israel has kept closed to all but the bare minimum...
The Hamas government has announced that the agreement for an 18-month truce agreement in the Gaza Strip has been agreed to, and will be announced by the Egyptian government within the next two or three days. Taher al-Nono, a member of their Cairo delegation, says the...
Avigdor Lieberman's Yisrael Beiteinu party didn't do nearly as well in the election as previous polls suggested he would, but with a narrow margin between the top parties they may yet hold the key to forming a coalition government. He's got a condition for any...
The Egyptian government's eagerness to stifle any public displays of discontent with their position on Israel's war on the Gaza Strip is well documented, but weeks after the war's ending one would assume the harsh treatment was over. That appears not to be the case...
The controversial booklet distributed to Israeli soldiers during the Gaza invasion by chief Israeli military rabbi Brigadier General Avichai Rontzki was "unsuitable for military publication," according to the Israeli Defense Ministry. In a letter to opposition MP...
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has announced that it is suspending all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, citing yesterday's reported theft of several truckloads of food by the Hamas government. Most of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza...
An opinion poll taken in the Palestinian territories has shown that the Hamas faction would beat Fatah by a narrow margin if elections were held this week: a significant improvement over past polls, which regularly show Fatah ahead (in spite of Hamas' victory in the...
The Israeli Navy captured an aid ship bound for the Gaza Strip today, arresting those on board and towing the ship to the Israeli port of Ashdod for inspection. Early reports indicated that the ship was fired upon before its capture, though the military insists they...
